Eskifjörður
Eskifjörður (in original spelling; ), or Eskifjördur, is a town and port in eastern Iceland with a large fishing industry. With a population of 1,043 it is one of the most populous towns in the municipality of Fjarðabyggð.
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- Locality
- Eskifjörður
- Region
- East
- Country
- Ísland
- Population
- 1,014
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
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Eskifjörður (in original spelling; ), or Eskifjördur, is a town and port in eastern Iceland with a large fishing industry. With a population of 1,043 it is one of the most populous towns in the municipality of Fjarðabyggð.
==History== Eskifjörður had 302 inhabitants in 1901, 425 in 1910, 619 in 1920, 758 in 1930, 671 in 1940, 673 in 1950, 1,741 in 1960, 936 in 1970 and 1,084 in 1981. It obtained the rights and privileges of an official trading place (verslunastaður) as early as 1786 and was awarded municipal status (kaupstaðarréttindi) on 10 April 1974. It developed into a booming community after Örum & Wulff, a powerful Danish trading company, had opened a trading post in 1798. In 1802 Kjartan Þórlaksson, the first Icelandic merchant who was not a Dane, settled down in Eskifjörður and started a successful business.